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Space Facts@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago

A 46,000,000-year-old mosquito still had blood inside

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A 46,000,000-year-old mosquito still had blood inside

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Space Facts@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago
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A fossilized mosquito preserved for 46,000,000 years was discovered with blood still inside its abdomen a rare snapshot of ancient life frozen in time

Article: https://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2013/1015/46-million-year-old-mosquito-filled-with-blood-is-a-scientific-first

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    What if we used a time machine, go back in time, place a mosquito on a dinosaur, then when all full of blood place it into a cryogenic container that can last say 70+million years, go back to the present, find the container, and sequence the DNA?

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      Why not just bring the mosquito back? Or the actual dinosaur?

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        (That was the joke. Well, an attempt at a joke at least.)

        • AbidanYre@lemmy.world
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          It was too early in the morning for me to pick up on that.

          My fault, not yours.

          • Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club
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            No worries, I get mistaken for a stupid person all the time (… but I added the word “mistaken” there out of my own hubris, deep down I know those are no mistakes).

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        Science is supposed to be complicated, dammit! /s

        • ripcord@lemmy.world
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          Oh, you also attended Rube Goldberg University?

          Good ol’ RGU. The Fightin’ Contraptions.

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        I think that was the joke

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          Probably

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